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Pandemic Response Most Demoralizing Event in U.S. History

There’s a funny scene in Robert Graves’s great novel, I, Claudius, when the son of a German chieftain who has been recruited by the Roman army gets into a shouting match with his brother, who stands at the head of a German army on the opposite side of the river from the Roman army. The brothers are reduced to an exchange of personal insults that culminates with the loyal German accusing his Romanized brother of breaking their mother’s heart.

I’ve often thought of this scene in recent years as I’...

My Corona Investigative Committee Presentation

Today is the two-year anniversary of my Corona Investigative Committee interview.

Many of you may have read my presentation notes in A Mostly Peaceful Depopulation, but you probably haven’t seen the video (transcript included below courtesy of a reader who generously volunteered to tidy up the AI transcript).

The next day, my fearless friend Leslie Manookian—founder of the Health Freedom Defense Fund (which just won a major legal victory against vaccine mandates, incidentally)—emailed me this no...

Varying Interpretations of Truth, or Truth as a Social Construct

In this age of relativism, where one often hears reference to “your truth” and “my truth,” there are so many varying interpretations of truth that the concept of truth itself seems devoid of meaning. It is fashionable to see the concept of truth as indistinguishable from opinions or preferences. For example, Mari Fitzduff writes that

for many of us, far from our beliefs being “true,” they are actually born out of a particular social context, allied to physiological needs such as a differing neur...

The West – Indubitably – Has Lost Russia, and is Losing Eurasia Too

There perhaps was a momentary shrugging-off of slumber in Washington this week as they read the account of Sergei Lavrov’s démarche to the U.S. Ambassador in Moscow: Russia was telling the U.S. – “We are no longer at peace”!

Not just ‘no longer at peace’, Russia was holding the U.S. responsible for the ‘cluster strike’ on a Crimean beach on last Sunday’s Pentecost holiday, killing several (including children) and injuring many more. The U.S. thereby “became party” to the proxy war in Ukraine (it...

Move Over, Disaster Capitalism–Make Room for Addiction Capitalism

That monkey on your back comes in many forms.

We’ve all heard of Disaster Capitalism: the Powers That Be either initiate or amplify a crisis as a means of granting themselves “emergency powers” which just so happen to further concentrate the nation’s wealth and power in the hands of the few at the expense of the many.

Naomi Klein described the concept and cited examples in her 2008 book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, and summarized the core dynamic: “Disaster capitalism per...

Really Think About What It Means That the US President Has Dementia

It’s very revealing how everybody’s focusing on what Biden’s dementia-addled debate performance says about his ability to win re-election instead of on the fact that the current, sitting president of the United States has dementia.

If you were lucky enough to have missed the debate, Biden was so confused and zoned out that not only did CNN’s audience overwhelmingly say Trump won while the word “dementia” was sent trending on Twitter, but it was also uniformly acknowledged to have been a horrifyi...

The Left Turns On Biden After Expected Bad Debate. What Next?

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Is Biden toast? That’s what Politico declared after a debate performance against Donald Trump that was as awful as anyone paying attention would’ve expected. Mainstream media uniformly broadcast the same sentiment. Biden froze, he rambled incoherently, he lost his train of thought, and spoke with a raspy voice that only emphasized his already his feeble condition. In this episode, we break down m...

The Great Cholesterol Scam and the Dangers of Statins

The more I study science, the more I come to see how often fundamental facts end up being changed so that a profitable industry can be created. In the case of heart disease, I very much believe that is the case and in this publication, I’ve tried to expose the erroneous information that predominates our understanding of this subject (e.g., previously I’ve discussed why our model of how the heart pumps blood in the body is incorrect and in an article that will be released in a few weeks, I will d...

The DNC Campaign To Oust Biden Has Failed

Yesterday’s assault by the Democratic National Committee on the Joe Biden campaign has failed.

Thursday night, as soon as the Trump-Biden debate had started, anonymous DNC officials contacted their usual ‘liberal media’ contacts and denounced Biden’s performance. Even those media, like CNN and MSNBC, who have for years denied the obvious problems Biden has had, jumped onto the train. Biden, they said, should retreat.

The New York Times mobilized a slew of its opinion writers to convey the messag...

Biggest News Story Ever! What Happened to Joe Biden’s Brain During the Debate?

Mainstream media continue to miss a huge story: What happened to President Joe Biden’s cognitive health in a span of less than 90 minutes during the debate?

I ask because, before the debate, mainstream and partisan “alternative” media asserted that President Biden was physically and mentally fit and doing the job with vigor and vim.  These media attacked anyone who suggested otherwise. But immediately after the debate, mainstream media talking heads were not positively spinning President Biden’s...